[LRUG] Mentoring Meetups

[Stephen Bartholomew]

Hey All,

Sorry for the lack of progress on the previous mentioned ideas about  
mentoring meetups.  I've had a number emails from some of you who are  
interested in group developing a basic web application from concept  
to deployment.  I realise that lax group development quite often  
leads to the non-completion of said project.  However, as I've  
mentioned before, the application itself is merely a way to focus  
meetups on a particular subject.

To this end, the structure I would like to propose is:

o An application for LRUG - attendee profiles, a place for code to be  
stored etc etc
o Each meetup covers a small iteration and focuses on a particular  
subject
o At the end we can also discuss any issues people are having with an  
applicataion they're developing (ala-pub after lrug)

We're also defining 'mentor' as 'one who guides' as opposed to 'uber- 
coder'.  Everyone will hopefully have something to contribute, rather  
than a tutor style approach.

As for the dates of the sessions, there can be no expectation as to  
the frequency.  Everyone has other commitments I'm sure so the only  
expectation at this stage is that there will be at least one meet.   
After that we will have a review and decide the next steps.  It may  
prove to be a waste of time.  Or useful.  Who knows?

Next steps:

1. Decide on a date - weekend or evening?
2. Decide on the application
3. Decide the first iteration to cover

So - do post your comments and thoughts.  If nothing else it will be  
a good excuse to sit in a cafe and look cool.

Cheers,

Steve